presumptuously
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Set to be released Nov. 11 by Universal Pictures, “The Fabelmans” is already being hailed by many, maybe a bit presumptuously, as Spielberg’s most personal film — his “Fanny and Alexander,” his “Amarcord.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
The painting in question is quite presumptuously entitled “The Visionary.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
Similarly, what’s disheartening about familiar methods employed in familiar ways is the sense of routine, the overconfidence that arises from directors doing what they seem, presumptuously, to know how to do.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Lord knows how many spotted-owl habitats were pulped for the sake of lord-knows-how-many presumptuously empathic, tender, longform portraits of the white working class.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2016
And yet, be it observed, the Quaker does not presumptuously reject them, but merely acts upon, as we suppose, an erroneous view of their nature.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis
